As a consultant focused on the org design of design orgs, I work across a variety of contexts—established businesses (banks, retail); software as a service (enterprise software); scale-ups (pre-IPO and growing); start-ups. And repeatedly over the past couple of years, I’ve found myself drawing some variation of the following generic digital product... See more
design is vastly undervalued in the Silicon Valley
@bchesky who is actually a designer, lays out characteristics of great designers that are actually the exact same for great founders/CEOs.
"I design the company. I design the product... and designing starts with curiosity. you have to... See more
I've been thinking a lot about this, and this is why I think designers are toping the chart.
Design as a practice is uniquely difficult to quantify, and design work in it of itself is even harder to verify.
Take code for example, it either works or it doesn't, it compiles or it breaks. But... See more